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Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World)Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World)Posted Feb 10, 2006 19:10 UTC (Fri) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)Parent article: Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World)
But...we've had PPC Linux for some years now. Works great.
Windows on a Mac might be new (though hardly "good"), but Linux on a Mac is quite old news.
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Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World) Posted Feb 10, 2006 19:38 UTC (Fri) by awoods (subscriber, #21721) [Link] Yes, but Linux on an Intel-based Mac is somewhat of a new frontier.
Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World) Posted Feb 10, 2006 21:15 UTC (Fri) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] It'll be interesting to see the EFI-based boot process, for sure.
Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World) Posted Feb 11, 2006 9:40 UTC (Sat) by toufeeq_hussain (guest, #25235) [Link] Linux already has EFI support right ? unlike Windows XP.
Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World) Posted Feb 11, 2006 15:49 UTC (Sat) by spot (subscriber, #15640) [Link] > Linux already has EFI support right ? unlike Windows XP.
Yes, but the EFI implementation on the Mactel is significantly altered from the Itanium EFI, so there is still some work that needs to be done in order to make it function.
Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World) Posted Feb 11, 2006 13:02 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link] There was an old version of NT that could run on PPC, IIRC. Could it run on Macs as well?
Coming next to the Mac: Linux and Windows? (PC World) Posted Feb 13, 2006 22:48 UTC (Mon) by sammythesnake (guest, #17693) [Link] There was an NT for Alpha. I don't recall there being an NT for PPC, but I hardly ever used NT even on x86, so I'm not really the person to ask :)
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